AmongReaders.com
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

Invasive

Chuck Wendig · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

The Lost World

Michael Crichton · 96 pages

Creature FeatureGenetic EngineeringScientist ProtagonistIsland
❤️

Phantoms

Dean Koontz · 441 pages

After finding one hundred and fifty people grotesquely dead in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California, officials cannot imagine anything as gruesome as the real reason for their death.

Isolated Location HorrorCreature FeatureScientist ProtagonistGenetic Engineering
❤️

Relic

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 468 pages

As taken from the author website (www.prestonchild.com): Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite o

Creature FeatureIsolated Location HorrorGenetic EngineeringScientist Protagonist
❤️

Jaws

Peter Benchley · 309 pages

Jaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of Montauk, New York shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. Doubleday commissioned him to write the novel in 1971, a period w

Creature FeatureIsolated Location HorrorIslandScientist Protagonist
❤️

Ancestor

Scott Sigler · 288 pages

An isolated location, a deadly scientific experiment, people with hidden motivations and a creature nature deemed to dangerous to exist and hence wiped out thousands of years ago. A thrilling adventure ride with scientific insights and immersive writing, Ancestor is a book that you will not be able to put down if you are fan of horror, adventure and science fiction genres.

Creature FeatureGenetic EngineeringIslandTense and Suspenseful
❤️

Terminal Freeze

Lincoln Child · 336 pages

A group of scientists undertake an expedition to Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone to study the effects of global warming. The expedition changes suddenly on a routine foray into a glacial ice cave, where the group makes an astonishing find.

Isolated Location HorrorCreature FeatureScientist ProtagonistTense and Suspenseful
❤️

The Island of Dr. Moreau

H.G. Wells · 155 pages

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Is

Isolated Location HorrorGenetic EngineeringCreature FeatureIsland
❤️

The Strain

Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan · 504 pages

The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.The StrainThey have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in d

Creature FeatureScientist ProtagonistGenetic EngineeringTense and Suspenseful
🙂

Fragment

Warren Fahy · 528 pages

In this powerhouse of suspense--as brilliantly imagined as Jurassic Park and The Ruins--scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they've seen before . . . an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards. The time is now. The place is the Trident, a long-range research vessel hired by the reality TV show Sealife. Ab

Creature FeatureIslandScientist ProtagonistTense and Suspenseful
🙂

Dreamcatcher

Stephen King · 870 pages

Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. Twenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy -- now men with separate lives and separate problems -- reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But wh

Creature FeatureIsolated Location HorrorTense and SuspensefulScience Fiction
🙂

Castaways

Brian Keene · 285 pages

When a group of people come to a lush, deserted island to compete on a popular reality TV show, they soon discover that they are being eliminated from the game permanently and violently when they fall victim to the monstrous half-human creatures that live in the jungle.

Creature FeatureIsolated Location HorrorIslandTense and Suspenseful
🙂

Amazonia

James Rollins · 432 pages

As taken from the author website (www.jamesrollins.com): The Rand scientific expedition entered the lush wilderness of the Amazon and never returned. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the world's most inhospitable rainforest: a former Special Forces soldier - scarred, mutilated, terrified, and mere hours from death - who went in with one arm missing...and came out with both in

Creature FeatureGenetic EngineeringScientist ProtagonistTense and Suspenseful
🙂

Trapped

Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath · 330 pages

Isolated Location HorrorCreature FeatureIslandTense and Suspenseful
🙂

The Atlantis Plague

A.G. Riddle · 397 pages

Genetic EngineeringScientist ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulThriller
🙂

Alien³

Alan Dean Foster · 256 pages

Creature FeatureIsolated Location HorrorTense and SuspensefulScience Fiction
🙂

Zoo

James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge · 416 pages

As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans. All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Oz watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of

Creature FeatureScientist ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulThriller
🙂

Web

John Wyndham · 142 pages

Web is a science fiction novel by John Wyndham, published posthumously by his estate in 1979. It features an attempt to set up a colony on a remote island, which is hampered by the native wildlife—a breed of deadly spider.

Creature FeatureIslandGenetic EngineeringTense and Suspenseful
🙂

The Trench

Steve Alten · 312 pages

Creature FeatureScientist ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulThriller
🙂

Diary

Chuck Palahniuk · 272 pages

Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she's now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn't stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they've found on the walls of houses he remodeled.Suddenly, though, Misty

Isolated Location HorrorIslandTense and SuspensefulFast-Paced
🙂

Island 731

Jeremy Robinson · 343 pages

Mark Hawkins, former park ranger and expert tracker, is out of his element, working on board the Magellan, a research vessel studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But his work is interrupted when, surrounded by thirty miles of refuse, the ship and its high tech systems are plagued by a series of strange malfunctions and the crew is battered by a raging storm. When the storm fades and the s

Creature FeatureIslandThrillerFast-Paced
🙂

Wired

Douglas E. Richards · 354 pages

"Kira Miller is a brilliant genetic engineer who discovers how to temporarily achieve savant-like capabilities in all areas of thought and creativity. But what if this transcendent level of intelligence brings with it a ruthless megalomania? David Desh left the special forces after his team was brutally butchered in Iran. Now he has been reactivated for one last mission: find Kira Miller, the enig

Genetic EngineeringScientist ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulScience Fiction
🙂

Alien: Out of the Shadows

Tim Lebbon · 304 pages

Isolated Location HorrorCreature FeatureTense and SuspensefulScience Fiction
🙂

The Great Zoo of China

Matthew Reilly · 392 pages

Attending the opening of a magnificent zoo in China where a newly discovered animal species is being housed, National Geographic expert Dr. CJ Cameron confronts unexpected dangers posed by the mysterious creatures. "The all-new thriller from #1 internationally bestselling author Matthew Reilly! It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for forty years. They have found a species of an

Creature FeatureGenetic EngineeringThrillerScience Fiction
🙂

The Passage

Justin Cronin · 861 pages

"It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born." First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors

Genetic EngineeringTense and SuspensefulScientist ProtagonistScience Fiction
📖 New 2026 Kindles just released. See them on Amazon ↗